Quotes About Wisdom

Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Age does not make us childish, as they say.It only finds us true children still.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it… but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

Dear friend, all theory is gray,And green the golden tree of life.

We really only learn from books we cannot judge. The author of a book we could really judge ought surely to be learning from us.

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

A person hears only what they understand.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.